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NOS-4R2
Joe Hill
Starting with the unsettling description
of an old man waking up from a coma
in prison, NOS-4RU is a modern yet
somewhat traditional vampire tale.
Joe Hill’s stor y focuses on two
charac ters with similar gifts – Charles
Manx who drives kidnapped
children to an imagined place called
‘Christmasland’ and Vic who uses her
bicycle to literally ‘bridge’ space and
time. Charles and Vic weave in and out
of each other’s lives while taking the
reader on a disturbing ride through
hidden realities, childhood memories
and Christmas.
Hill’s writing st yle is reminiscent of his
father’s (Stephen King), creating a very
visual, detailed world, well-realised
characters and a plot that surprises
and moves the reader at ever y turn.